diff --git a/update_plugins.py b/update_plugins.py
index da01fda6..47b33c3d 100644
--- a/update_plugins.py
+++ b/update_plugins.py
@@ -8,18 +8,12 @@ except ImportError:
 
 import re
 import shutil
-import sys
 import tempfile
+import urllib.request
 import zipfile
 from io import BytesIO
 from os import listdir, path
 
-if sys.version_info.major > 2:
-    import urllib2 as request
-else:
-    import urllib.request as request
-
-
 # --- Globals ----------------------------------------------
 PLUGINS = """
 auto-pairs https://github.com/jiangmiao/auto-pairs
@@ -79,7 +73,7 @@ SOURCE_DIR = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), "sources_non_forked_cache")
 
 def download_extract_replace(plugin_name, zip_path, temp_dir, source_dir):
     # Download and extract file in temp dir
-    with request.urlopen(zip_path) as req:
+    with urllib.request.urlopen(zip_path) as req:
         zip_f = zipfile.ZipFile(BytesIO(req.read()))
         zip_f.extractall(temp_dir)
         content_disp = req.headers.get("Content-Disposition")